Physics

From the forces that keep athletes twirling and sliding, to the weird laws governing the world of the very small, to the far-out concepts of time travel and alternate universes, physics covers a lot of interesting territory. Here, Live Science keeps you abreast of all the fascinating physics discoveries. Physics

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The 4th Flavor? Scientists Close in on a New Kind of Neutrino

June 18, 2018 | Article

The history behind the discovery is a fascinating tale with twist and turns that would make Agatha Christie's head spin.
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Einstein's Crude, Racist Travel Diaries Have Been Published in English

June 13, 2018 | Article

Albert Einstein, who famously supported the American civil rights movement, wrote down racist ideas about Chinese, Japanese, Sri Lankan and Indian people.
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The Higgs Boson Has a New Friend

June 04, 2018 | Article

The Higgs boson appeared again at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and this time, it revealed something new and exciting about its behavior.
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Dark Matter May Have an Electric Charge

June 02, 2018 | Article

The mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.
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A Major Physics Experiment Just Detected a Particle That Shouldn't Exist

June 01, 2018 | Article

There's something strange happening in the universe, and it's either evidence of a hidden particle, or a sign that the experiments are broken.
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There Are Two Kinds of Water in Every Glass, Thanks to Quantum Physics

May 31, 2018 | Article

There are two kinds of water in every glass, they're different from one another, and scientists managed to separate them and study the differences between them.
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Researchers Crack the Code of 'Flying Doughnuts'

May 31, 2018 | Article

Toroids! Toroids! Toroids!
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What's the Absolutely Amazing Theory of Almost Everything?

May 26, 2018 | Article

Here's why the Standard Model of particle physics is seriously amazing.
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Nuclear Detectives Hunt Invisible Particles That Escaped the World's Largest Atom Smasher

May 22, 2018 | Article

The Large Hadron Collider hasn't found any new physics since the Higgs boson. A team of outsider physicists think they know why.
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Why Is Ice Slippery?

May 21, 2018 | Article

No, it's not because there's a thin layer of melted water on the top.
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